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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [‎1010] (47/688)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (341 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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kathir
. o 13 miles in width, its average depth being about 21?
The harbour is 3 miles in h y /gj feet< T he channel leading into the harbour is
feet. At high tide there is a dep , f 2 o f ee t. About 20 vessels of moderate size
about a mile wide and also has a V under their own steam to the wharf
could be berthed m the harbou . J ess(ils to be t ied up at the same time. The depth
alongside which there is t 24 feet at low tide. So far only a few temporary
been^cted at Ms-al-Kathib and there are no sign, of harbour eons-
71 miles of B S K t
RTdKMUbtethe n S eaboard terminus of the proposed H^aidah-Sana'a Railway and
wton SL Xleted Kathih will no doubt supersede Hod.adah as the pnne.pal harbour
on that part of the coast.
™:ilv pronounced Chathir; an important Arab tribe of Northern 'Arabistam
Th^Shlr occupy both banks of the Diz river, the Bait Sa'ad being in places interspersed
^th them frcJ the limits of the 'Anafijeh up to a point 8 or 10 miles above Qaleh
vfSak - also the countrv in general between the Diz and the Karkheh rivers be-
Ahdush Shah , also ^country ^ ^ nomads . but in the DizfGl Di8tric t they
longs ^ them- villa s of QaPeh 'Abdush Shah, Jirqeh Saiyid Ahmad, al'eh Banut
ar ® Nau Some Kathir also are settled at 'Arab Hasan on the Shatait The
Rather unlike" other Arab tribes of ' Arabistan such as the Bawlyeh, not only take Persian
wives themselves, but are accustomed to give their daugthers m marnage to Persians.
The following is a statement of the divisions of the tribe
Section.
Ka'ab-ad-Di-
bais.
Karim (Bait)
Sub-section.
Karim
Mauleh (Bait)
Location.
Fighting
strength.
Right bank
of the Sha-
ur to the
west of
Shush near
Qaryeh Sai
yid Tahir.
Husain i y e h,
a tract on
the right
bank of the
Diz 7 miles
above the
'Ajirub and
extending
from the
Diz to the
Shaur.
800, all with
rifles, of
whom 50 are
amounted.
500, all with
rifles, of
whom 300
are mounted.
Remarks.
This section are said to
own 3,000 buffaloes,
4,000 cattle and 10,000
sheep and goats.
This section takes one
of its names from
Mauleh who is a
brother of Shaikh
Haidar: the other
name is generally
pronounced Charim or
Jarim. Their live
stock are estimated
at 500 camels, 400
mules, a few buffa
loes, 1,000 cattle and
20,000 sheep and
goats.

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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.

The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.

A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.

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1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.

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English in Latin script
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